[open-bibliography] Mendeley and open data...

Tue Aug 31 10:06:35 UTC 2010

Just to quickly point out that I've personally lost track of the lawsuits
that content providers have brought against Google's reproduction of indexed
content, both the public ones and the private threats of ones. Many of these
arguments have been settled out of court.

Ben

On Aug 31, 2010 10:56 AM, "William Waites" <william.waites at okfn.org> wrote:

On 10-08-31 10:35, Jonathan Gray wrote: >> It's a waste of time and effort
worrying about this. > ...
How I wish it weren't necessary though. On a more
philosophical level it is a gigantic counterproductive
waste of time and effort for society as a whole to spend
so much energy trying to make what are in my view
essentially fraudulent ownership claims over ideas.

Unfortunately they do, and vested intellectual property
interests have a lot of money and power. So organisations
like OKF and the FSF are necessary to protect the rest
of us. An unfortunate consequence of this is that *we*
have to spend some time and effort thinking about things
like licenses when we would rather be doing interesting
things with software and data.

Pretending the problem doesn't exist won't make it go
away.

Cheers,

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